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Some towns could be in both. Chigwell and Watford both north, but also east and west respectively. Is Epsom south of London as well as to the east and the west?
Albert | 24.02.20 - 7:33 a.m. | #
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Due north is certainly the least appealing. Due east I would suggest both Leipzig and Chernobyl could result in some very entertaining and informative DG posts.
MO | 24.02.20 - 7:38 a.m. | #
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A very interesting and thought provoking piece. I particularly like the map with stripes.
The east and west dimensions, with the more distant places, are subject to the Mercator effect. Great cirles passing E-W through London would pass through a different set of cities.
Malcolm | 24.02.20 - 7:57 a.m. | #
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You just reminded me of a mission I went on in the 90s to find the intersection of Barcelona's Avinguda del Paral·lel (parallel with the equator) with the Greenwich meridian. It turned out to be a rather arid field in Aragon.
tops | 24.02.20 - 8:00 a.m. | #
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Albert, the Borough of Epsom & Ewell is north of the southern boundary of Greater London and east of the western boundary and is within DG's orange rectangle.
Mike | 24.02.20 - 8:10 a.m. | #
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Yay! I was born just inside this envelope, in Treorchy, Rhondda (one of the South Wales coal mining valleys).
This prompts the questions, what percentage of the land area of England and Wales does this envelope cover, and are the number of people who live in it pro rata to what would be expected?
Ken | 24.02.20 - 8:11 a.m. | #
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The two bars cover 20% of the land area of England and Wales.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 24.02.20 - 8:25 a.m. | #
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The North axis reminds me of why I disliked football as a kid. Growing up and going to school in Sunny Hunstanton (to the north of "nearly north" King's Lynn), running around in a northerly gale straight from the Arctic and laden with North Sea was definitely not fun ...
Putters | 24.02.20 - 9:17 a.m. | #
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This has me wondering about all the (probably) tiny Canadian communities out even further west
James | 24.02.20 - 9:33 a.m. | #
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To me "across" and "wide" are the same thing.
I'd have said high and wide.
dg writes: I decided London isn't 28 miles high.
Joho | Homepage | 24.02.20 - 9:59 a.m. | #
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I guess we will see the odd post from some of the towns mentioned.
Southern Heights (Light Railway) | 24.02.20 - 10:01 a.m. | #
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Chernobyl! In my mind that's hundreds of miles further south. This post is probably today's thing that slightly changes how you see the world for while.
Jamie Tucker | 24.02.20 - 10:32 a.m. | #
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Just for laughs, I looked up location of Charing Cross on Google maps, and then changed the lat. to -90. Pickle Crow village in Ontario Canada is pretty close to -90 (and pretty remote). Landfall in Canada on Charing Cross Lat. looks to be around St Anthony in Newfoundland.
+90 is Chadan in Russia, (towards Mongolia but some way off) Haven't done the pacific landfall.
I'll let someone else have the pleasure of following the long. down through Africa to the Med landfall and the landfalls on the southern part of Africa and Antartica. and maybe 180 degrees long.
MilesT | 24.02.20 - 10:51 a.m. | #
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Well that leaves a lot of scope for tomorrow's post!
Cornish Cockney | 24.02.20 - 2:18 p.m. | #
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Past Africa you have to go to 71S across a lot of angry sea to a big lump of ice before you hit land again.
scrumpy | 24.02.20 - 4:16 p.m. | #
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How far off is "not quite"? According to Street Map, the extreme western point of Greater London (Junction 14 of the M25) is at about 0:30:30 W, whilst the most easterly point of the City of Lincoln is further east, at about 0:29:45 W
timbo | 24.02.20 - 4:56 p.m. | #
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